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1943 Training Video on Captured German Firearms

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  • 08-08-2011 2:53pm
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    whydave
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9draRRHv4g

    The video was produced by the US Office of Strategic Services in 1943, and was designed to instruct American troops on the proper use of captured German firearms. It covers the most common weapons that were encountered in the field:

    K98 rifle
    MP40 submachine gun
    Luger P08 pistol
    Stielhandgranate 24 or 39 grenade
    MG34 and MG42 machine guns
    8cm Granatwerfer 34 mortar


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    johngalway
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    Clever trigger on the MG 34, machine gun posing as a lone rifleman.


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    BlaasForRafa
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    johngalway wrote: »
    Clever trigger on the MG 34, machine gun posing as a lone rifleman.

    Useful but too time consuming and expensive to produce.

    I had thought this was going to be the infamous "its bark is worse than its bite" training film from 1944 which probably got more troops killed than saved.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyj-ZHXFKQI


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